If you’re on a phone in a club, you’ve lost the plot on how to party. Rather than bring some magic of your own, the idea is for everyone to document everything with devices and then use them to suck the life out of the party and zap it over to the real party — which is online. You’re only as good as the number of your Twitter followers or likes these days! But this is a reflection of a soulless world where even Obama and Lady Gaga buy Twitter followers. The hottest and biggest club is now online and, sadly, it’s a popularity contest rather than an actual party. I remember when Johnny Dynell and Chi Chi Valente stopped doing their Tuesday night bash Jackie 60. They told me they were going to have a ‘virtual party’ online with their website. I sneered “I can’t drink a virtual drink and I can’t suck a virtual dick, so I have no use for a virtual party.” Turns out that their online site the Motherboards was a precursor of Facebook.”
— Lady Bunny in an interview with HuffPo about the current state of nightlife in New York City
Paul Nadolski
I have no Twitter followers (I tried it and quickly realized it wasn’t for me) and I quit Facebook over a year ago. I do have a Tumblr that I sometimes use, but seriously, the whole “take a picture of everything and upload it to your Instagram and share it with the whole world” thing is something I can just live without. Whatever happened to real conversations and human interactions? I guess it’s easier to hide behind your screen/phone and avoid rejection that way…“I can’t drink a virtual drink and I can’t suck a virtual dick, so I have no use for a virtual party.” My sentiments exactly!
Jonathan26
So well said by Lady Bunny!
robirob
People are conditioned into becoming more socially awkward / needy for approval from others and burdened with intimacy and trust issues. The descision to become a shrink or a life coach will be a sound one for decades to come.
SpunkyBunks
I find it so strange to go to concerts and see everyone recording the concert on their phones. You paid top dollar to attend a live event, just to spend the whole time recording a crappy low quality video to post on YouTube and Facebook that nobody really wants to watch?
Bizarre.
Put down the damn phone and enjoy the live event!
lykeitiz
@SpunkyBunks: I don’t know if you know who Jack White is (Rock musician), but I went to a show of his a few weeks ago & was pleasantly surprised by what he did. 10 minutes before the concert started, an announcer came out and encouraged the audience NOT to over-do it with their devices. He said that concerts were an experience to be enjoyed live, and that they had hired a professional photographer for each show in every city that would get the best shots anyway, and that everyone was invited to download the pics off their website for free after the show and could take credit for the pics as if they were their own when they posted them to their own social media accounts.
For the most part, it worked. It was the least amount of phones I’ve seen at a show in a while. It was amazing!
Ms Urethra Johnson
I sometimes SNAP when confronted with a barfull of patrons clicking/tapping away… I shut the music… wait a few seconds… then:” Since you’re obviously not entertained…” Don’t mind me… I’ll be going to the bathroom now… want to effing twitt that? Why bother going out if you’re not gonna talk to no one… betches , really??? Or I start rambling silly comments…I heard your BF has crabs, are you cut or uncut?, are you a swallower or a spitter?, Are them titties real? or my fav… There’s a phag right next to you, you idiot… and so forth…
vive
@Paul Nadolski, yes, Tumblr is great for porn, but like you I see no point in the other social sites.
vive
It is not so different from the vacations people used to spend even in the 70s looking in the OPPOSITE direction of whatever beautiful landscape or architectural feature, so someone could take a picture of them in it. What is different is the SCALE of this behavior today.
QJ201
Guys go to bars to see who else in the room is on Grindr or Scruff.
Bob LaBlah
Hi Buns. Love you.
JennyFromdabloc
She’s right but it’s a sad sign of the times. Guys, stop with constant pics at bars/clubs/parties and STOP dragging your girlfriends to places that should be for guys. Your work wife does not need to experience leather night!
Dave4445
I watched a hot guy receiving head in the back room at Power House in SF, he was texting on his smart phone through the entire encounter, a look of total indifference on his face. Hilarious but kind of sad.